HOMILY FOR SATURDAY OF THE 2ND WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME
Homily for Saturday of the 2nd week in ordinary time Hebrews 9:2-3, 11-14; The first reading speaks to us of the tabernacle or rent set up in the Temple of Jerusalem. It says: "For a tent was constructed, the first one, in which were the lampstand, the table and the bread of the presence; it is called the Holy place. Behind the second curtain was a tent called the Holy of Holies" (Heb 9:2-3). In the Old Covenant, in the Temple of Jerusalem, a curtain hung between the Holy place and the Holy of Holies. Only the high priest could enter the Holy of Holies, only but once a year to make atonement for the sins of the people using the blood of bulls and goats. However in the New Covenant, Jesus is the high priest who enters the Holy of Holies which is heaven, and rather than the blood of goats and calves (Heb 9:12), he poured "his own blood" (Heb 9:12). This is evedent at the death of Jesus on the cross of Calvary, "the Curtain of the temple was torn in two, from ...